Senate Committee Seeks
Records of Agency Head

SACRAMENTO -- Richard Becker, the embattled head of a state environmental agency that ordered scientists to shred their research, had better hope that his own archives are intact.

Dr. Becker, who leads the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, has received a massive request for information from Senate President Pro Tem Bill Lockyer and his fellow Democratic inquisitors at the Senate Rules Committee. The full Senate must...